HOR.Se SHOWS AND HUNTS Jersey N igltts I F some foresighted gentleman had taken motion pictures of the 1939 :\;lonlnouth County Horse Show, he lnight have shown them in an air- cooled theatre last week and spared a lot of people the discomforts of the heat wave at Rumson Road. This year's IVlon- mouth exhibition had the same horses, riders, committee members, and spectators who were on hand last summer. The only difference was that this tiIne there were night sessions, at which quite a few people turned up in evening clothes. 1\I1rs. F . Woodson Hancock's big bay, Bond Street, won the hunter champion- ship for the second straight year. He de- feated some fine horses, including Mrs. Rufus C. Finch's Fitz Lee, who won the title at the Westchester Country Club a week earlier; Patricia du Pont's Kingvulture, Mrs. F. A. Straus's Grey Simon, and l)eborah Rood's I)ublin Venture. Since Bond Street was riden through- out the show by Mrs. Edgar Scott of ])hiladelphia, I felt uneasy every time he vvent over a fence, for although Mrs. Scott is an excellent horsewoman and has done some notable riding on Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt \\Thitney's great gray, Lincoln, she is what the insurance companies call a bad risk. Last year shc broke her nose in a show-ring spill; in 1938, while hunting with \\T. Plunket Stewart's Cheshire Hounds, she broke fi ve bones in her back; and in 1937 she fractured her skull in a Happy Hill point- to-point race. She used to be an aviator, like her sister, Charlotte I ves Montgom- ery, but gave up fiying because, she said, it was too dangerous. I HOPE more horse shows go in for night sessions; the lights add a lot of gaiety and apparently don't disturb the horses. Certainly, }"'reddy \Vettach's Plymouth Rock, who is a mixture of thoroughbred and Percheron, was not hampered; if anything, the lights seemed to stimulate him. Plymouth Rock had the jumper championship cinched after only two days of competition. The run- ner-up to Plymouth Rock was Dr. E. J. Laing's chestnut mare, Royal Lassie, a chunky little animal who was bred in Radnor and used to have a mean dis- position. Dr. Laing is Master of the Bristol Fox Hounds in Pennsylvania, and several seasons ago he improved Royal Lassie's temper by the uncom- mon method of working her about forty l11iles every hunting day, sending her on twenty-mile drag hunts from which she would return just in time to go out with the regular hounds. ow she's as docile as can be. Donald Sutherland won the high- jumping competition, which wound up at Monmouth County after earlier installments at Hunt- ington-Crescent and the \Vest- chester Country Club, riding his own fourteen-year-old High 'fide, a former Missouri work horse who was shipped East some years ago to be sold as a wagon- puller. Sutherland, who is in the truck- ing business with his father in Brooklyn, found High Tide while looking over a batch of work horses for the firm. He took a fancy to the animal and taught him to jump. At the \\1 estchester show, High Tide cleared a seven-foot rail, and at Rumson he won the event with a jump of five feet nine inches. I'm not too sure that the recent revival of high jumping is a good thing, even if it does zive the crowds a thrill. There's too "- much chance for a horse to break a leg, or his rider's neck. A LONG THE RAIL: .i\mory Haskell, I1 M.F.H., who owns \VBKX ("the station that speaks your lan- guage") , tuning a portable radio to one of his Spanish programs in the judges' stand at R umson. . . . J{ube \Villiams talking of plans to have Pctc Bostwick, Cecil Smith, and Stewart Ig- lehart ride in a Red Cross charity polo game on i\ugust 3rd.... Patricia du Pont feeding sugar to Kingvulture after he had won the ladies' hunter class. . . . The J erseyite in the bar tent who thought he ought to get a floor show with his fifty-cent Tom Collins. - T. O'R. . I t had taken him five weeks to do the hand-setting and he had trouble with the spelling of such words as resucitation. -Fro11z Dorothy Dunbar Brolnley's col- U11zn in the Post. \Vell, he's in good company., . 1\10st people recover from all but one of their illnesses. This is a comforting observation.-Frol1z uThe Psychology of HUTllan Conflict," by Edwin R. Guthrie. Puts us in a regular carnival mood. 61 ,""ll' '=wø , ,;:: ; :,:;':;;:",...... A . - , f: , ' , :&,' , : . : , :1 , , ;""" ::::::':":,:' '... ',':': ::-:': , -- :. . The L.ove/y International Chanteuse ,t;l,:.. $ ..'.-..,' , ' ,(<7, t : , , : , : .. . ; : , ; , : , t ttt ^ 4 "' 1\< ; :;'Î;!= : :::l:: ':.,,' '::' L""::;>: HILDEGARDE AFTER THE THEATRE in the Air-Conditioned Cafe Lounge and Snack Bar Until Wednesday. July 31st JOHN BUCKMASTER In His Sketches and Impressions Beginning Thursday. 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